Adventure NZ

Project $12K Jeep Cherokee - maintenance and repairs update
Project $12K Jeep Cherokee - maintenance and repairs update
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Owning an older vehicle often means more regular maintenance issues, especially one that is over 25 years old, and Project 12K is no different. Custodian Ashley Lucas explains.
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New NZ-made diesel tent heater
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Unlike a lot of Kiwis, I really feel the cold, and as I get older, I am enjoying less and less the prospect of climbing into a cold tent and sleeping bag at the end of a hard day’s driving.
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Up Eyre Creek
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
It was a case of ‘third time’s the charm’ for 4x4Explorer’s Richard Soult on his latest attempt to find out what lies behind Shepherds Creek hut, in the Eyre Creek area west of Athol in Nor
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Project $12K Jeep Cherokee Maintenance and repairs update
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
It’s been a while since we last updated Project 12K, probably so long some of you might have even forgotten we still had a budget project Jeep Cherokee.
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Oxford Series One
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
Recently I was invited by Mike Sheppard, Chairman of the Canterbury Combined 4WD Clubs, to attend the Basil Phelps skills competition day where I was introduced to ‘Oxford’ arguably the most famous
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Barn bay or bust!
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
The Otago Land Rover Club has been trekking in and out of the supposedly inaccessible Barn Bay in remote South Westland for years.
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Putting the High into High Country Journeys
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
High Country Journeys describe their latest Great Central Otago and Mackenzie Explorer Tour as ‘a six-day/seven-night package, popular with clients looking for something with a little more
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Four Seasons in one day
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
4x4Explorer Richard Soult is forced to come up with Plans Bee-through-Zee as a sudden midsummer cold snap wrecks havoc on his original guided route through the Central Otago high country.
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Return to Ngaroma
Return to Ngaroma
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Now very much a farming district south-east of Te Awamutu, Ngaroma was once a thriving timber town.
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It's a small world
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Getting together with a bunch of like-minded individuals in New Zealand’s great outdoors is what Overlanding is all about… as 4x4Explorer Richard Soult discovered on a recent trip ‘up the M
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Manawatu 4WD Club Charity Fundraising Safari 2021
Manawatu 4WD Club Charity Fundraising Safari 2021
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
Rain affected play on this year’s Manawatu 4WD Club charity Safari in the remote Waitotora Valley in late January.
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The Motu Safari 2021
The Motu Safari 2021
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
The Motu Safari was back on the calendar this summer with the same mix of stunning East Coast tracks and trails but a new simplified three-day format.
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Marble hill on my mind
Marble hill on my mind
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
He’s passed by literally hundreds of times over the years but it was only recently that 4x4Explorer Richard Soult decided to stop and spend some quality time around Marble Hill on the Lewis Pas
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Close to Home – Richard & Gav’s excellent adventure
Sunday, 17 January 2021
With a week before everyone else arrived, Richard Soult was able to show Aucklander Gavin some of Central Otago’s more remote tracks and trails.
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Join the (4x4) club
Sunday, 17 January 2021
4WD club membership offers many advantages, as NZ4WD magazine publisher Cathy Parker can attest.
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Remembering the ‘Forgotten World’
Sunday, 17 January 2021
Remote it definitely is, but as Weekend Drive correspondent David Coxon says, if you make the effort to drive there, the Republic of Whangamomona has a lot to offer.
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Summer escape in the High Country
Sunday, 17 January 2021
Before heading to Siberia last year to drive the BAM Railway support road (see story NZ4WD Nov 2020) Bay of Plenty retirees Martin and Jeanette Knudsen ‘limbered up’ with a ‘Summer Escape’
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How to get your lady to enjoy the 4WD?
Monday, 14 December 2020
Buy her some proper gumboots, show her how the truck works, go somewhere pretty, and read on!
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A Series 1 on the Matariki Safari
Thursday, 19 November 2020
Last year the Plimmer family from Hamilton took their 1956 Land Rover Series 1 on the Matariki Forestry Charity fund-raising Safari hosted by the Whangamata 4WD Club – and this year they invited me
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A trip up the Rakaia
Thursday, 19 November 2020
Now both back based in Christchurch, 4x4Explorer Richard Soult and 5GoOverland mate Aaron Rich celebrated with a recent trip to the headwaters of the mighty Rakaia River – and beyond.
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Daytripper
Thursday, 29 October 2020
Difficult to describe a road-trip in a new Mazda CX-30 with SkyActiv X technology in the immortal lyrics of John, Paul, George and Ringo, but then there were things “It took me so long, to find
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The Redwoods Express
Thursday, 29 October 2020
 If you’re a keen mountain biker like NZ4WD magazine Editor Ross MacKay, all roads in the upper-middle part of the North Island lead to Rotorua.  For his latest trip there he had the use of a Su
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Happy Tauranga trails in a Honda
Thursday, 29 October 2020
With over 33,000 Honda CR-Vs registered since the model’s first debut in 1997, there’s no denying the popularity of this medium-sized SUV and for 2021, the high riding Honda has seen some radica
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Let’s go camping this summer
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Camping and 4WDs go together like summer and sun block. Or summer and late, balmy nights swapping stories around a campfire.
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Middle Earth traverse
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
With the Covid-19 coronavirus putting paid to a long-planned 4x4 trip to the South Island, Taupo pair Paula Burnett and Cameron Raupi reset their sights a little closer to home...
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